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...only 45 people--out of 1,581 studied--who had used cell phones for a total of more than 500 hours. Moreover, the New England Journal report said its study sample was too small to spot an increased risk of tumors in the part of the brain near the ear--precisely where tumors caused by radiation might be expected to occur. Both reports said longer-term studies are needed...
...wobbled. Although Angelos' firm later said no filing was imminent, it has been carefully studying the issue. Angelos has also joined counsel for Baltimore neurologist Christopher Newman, who brought an $800 million suit against Motorola and several wireless carriers for allegedly causing the baseball-size brain cancer near his ear that has left him permanently disabled...
BRAINY BIRD Chirpy-Chi ($25) is Tiger Electronics' latest attempt to build the perfect robotic animal toy, and it's safe to say it's getting closer. When called to action, the toy sings (up to 40 songs) and begs for its ear-of-corn toy, which it "eats" with jabbing movements and excited warbles. Though a successor to Furby and Poo-Chi, this plastic, squawking, nonspecific bird doesn't exhibit the same annoyingly earnest cuteness. Even more important: Chirpy-Chi goes to sleep in a hurry and doesn't wake up at every little sound...
...With his ear at the phone, North says, he later went on to bake jelly and cocoa rolls...
...upped the gene-sequencing ante to a new level. At the urging of medicine Nobelist Hamilton Smith, now a Celera scientist, Venter decided to use a technique called shotgunning to sequence the entire genome of a living organism, the H. influenzae bacterium (a bug that causes ear and respiratory infections...